Ivy League-educated former translator for the United Nations Katharina "Rina" Edgeworth starts to grow restless in the comfort of domesticity. When the government approaches her with the opportunity to put her potential to good use, she secretly exchanges her 1950s housewife title for FBI informant, where she is tasked to take down high-ranked Soviet spy Jacob Gornev, an ex-boyfriend from college. A Woman of Intelligence follows Rina's struggle with self-identity as she navigates the complications of both motherhood and espionage in this unputdownable novel.